My passenger side door has been froze shut for a couple years and never could get it open. Now my driver side door lock broke and there is no way I can get into the car. The only thing I can do is hope I can get my driver side door unlocked and hopefully the inside bar is somewhat still attached to open the door. Otherwise I'll have no choice but to break a window to get in.

My passenger side door has been froze shut for a couple years and never could get it open. Now my driver side door lock broke and there is no way I can get into the car. The only thing I can do is hope I can get my driver side door unlocked and hopefully the inside bar is somewhat still attached to open the door. Otherwise I'll have no choice but to break a window to get in.

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You don't have to break the windows--you just need 45 minutes, a lot of patience, and a lot of wires, long flat objects (like yardsticks), shims, crowbars, and 2 people.

Same thing happened on my 88 Regal. We levered open the top of the doors on both sides, used shims to keep the micro-space open, and managed to "hook" the interior door handle of one door from the other side of the car using the wires. The flat long objects are necessary on the interior door handle side to help manuver the hook into place on the latch. Then, with one person pulling the wire to actuate the interior latch, the other person had to be on that side to pull open the door.

This is the SECOND time in two years I've had to replace BOTH of the interior mechanisms for the outer door handles. Is this normal, or did Buick screw up with this part?

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first step is to remove inside door panel. look around panel for any visable screws note most are hidden remove all to free panel along bottom of panel are plastic clips gently pull near clips to release if panel is hard to pull off look for more scews like under power window switch which may pop out and have screw undernieth near door handle and under arm rest. once panel is off look indoor near outside handle and u should be able to see whats going on u may just need new clip to hold latch rod to handle or may need new handle from a salvage yard or auto parts store but first step remove panel hope this helps u

R/F door trim will have to be removed. Most likely you will find linkage disconnected from the inside latch of the outside door handle. You might even find a broken piece of the door handle requiring replacement